The pilot of the plane which crashed into a Melbourne shopping outlet was involved in a near midair collision less than two years ago.

Five people are confirmed dead after a light plane crashed into an Australian shopping centre near Melbourne’s Essendon Airport. Joining Tristram Clayton is Melbourne-based journalist Rebekah Holt to discuss this disaster.

Witnesses to a fiery, peak hour plane crash beside one of Melbourne's busiest freeways have told of a "massive fireball" after the light aircraft plummeted.

It's been described as "coma in a bottle" and can bring on psychosis and hallucinations. It also caused 40 overdoses this weekend.

Cameron McMillan discovers some of Melbournes's best watering holes, with the help of a new drinking buddy.

Drug overdoses at Melbourne's Electric Parade music festival have landed more than 20 revellers in hospital.

Warning: Distressing material. An Australian teen who took her own life after being bullied and raped wrote a powerful warning letter to her peers.

Festival goers in Melbourne's west were punched and kicked, and had phones, wallets and bags stolen, by a gang of 40 youths.

The stricken cruise liner The Norwegian Star is expected to arrive in Port Melbourne this afternoon.

Guests at a wild party in an Airbnb rental were jumping fences and hiding in backyards to get away from a weapon-yielding gang that gatecrashed.

A man's body has been found in the carpark lift of a Westfield shopping centre in Melbourne early this morning.

Gary Baron was just a humble truckie who became a millionaire overnight, which caused him to lose friends and live a secret life of luxury.

Sister's response to Melbourne teenager accused of murdering a friend over a A$100 debt after he rang her for advice.

A long-running fight between a Victorian truck driver and his former workmates over a disputed $16.6 million group Powerball win has come to an end.

Three New Zealand men with alleged links to Melbourne's violent Apex gang are due to be deported from Australia.

A 33-year-old woman has become the sixth victim of the sickening Melbourne car attack.

The brother of the man who allegedly killed five in the Melbourne rampage says "no one could have predicted" what would happen.

In the wake of the Bourke Street rampage, prison breakouts and a youth crime wave, Victoria's police have been under scrutiny for being "risk averse".

'Jimmy' Gargasoulas is accused of stabbing his brother for being gay before the Bourke St rampage. A friend says there's more to it.

Investment bank Credit Suisse is tipping Fairfax Media as a hot stock in Australia this year on the basis that it will divest its

The taxi driver who was called a hero for taking charge and helping the injured in Bourke Street attack thinks it was his military training that helped him.

Police are being slammed over their handling of the Melbourne massacre - but what could they have done? Here are the key questions.

The youngest person to die after Melbourne's Bourke St rampage has been remembered as a "beautiful, loving, happy" boy.

Friends have praised the "hunnie pie" younger sibling allegedly stabbed by the man accused of the recent Melbourne CBD massacre.

With one daughter dead, another in hospital and his wife clinging to life, Tony Hakin is trapped in an impossible nightmare after the Melbourne rampage.

Dimitrious "Jimmy" Gargasoulas has been charged with murder in relation to Melbourne's Bourke Street massacre.

Amelia Wade stays at a newly-opened, design-driven Melbourne hotel.

Families and friends of one of the Melbourne massacre victims have remembered her as a "strong, beautiful, determined" woman.

A teenager armed with a baseball bat who tried to stop the Melbourne car rampage says he's not a hero because he couldn't save the five people who died.

Heartbroken family members last night said their final goodbyes to a three-month old baby boy after he was tragically killed in Friday's Melbourne CBD rampage.